"Baby on Nigerian government payroll" November 12, 2011|Associated Press
LAGOS, Nigeria - A newborn baby in Nigeria got added to a government payroll, earning about $150 a month for the last two or three years, a discovery indicative of the widespread corruption starving the oil-rich West African nation of much-needed funds, authorities said yesterday.
The baby was one of many “ghost workers’’ found to be getting salaries without performing a job, said Garba Gajam, the attorney general of Zamfara state, located in Nigeria’s arid and impoverished northwest.
That's also rampant in AmeriKa.
The employee was listed as being a month old in government records, but Gajam said the child’s father started collecting the salary before the baby was born. Records also show that the baby has a diploma....
Diversions of funds, such as to “ghost workers,’’ means the majority of Nigerians are left with virtually no services from their government.
Sound familiar, Americans?
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